The worst of the damage was in the province of Pampanga, which was the site of all 11 fatalities, disaster officials said.
PORAC - Philippine rescuers were scrambling Tuesday to reach dozens of people feared buried under a building near Manila that collapsed a day earlier in a powerful earthquake, as the death toll climbed to 11.
Scores of rescuers in the town of Porac were wielding cranes and jackhammers to peel back the pancaked concrete structure of a four-storey building where up to 30 people were unaccounted for. The quake also damaged several centuries-old churches which were crowded with worshippers in recent days as the majority-Catholic Philippines marked the Easter holiday.
The quake was centred on the town of Castillejos, about 100 kilometres northwest of Manila, local geologists said.
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